AFRAID Synonyms

• eagerly desirous

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted

• experiencing or showing fear

• causing fear or dread or terror

• extremely distressing

• timid by nature or revealing timidity

• showing fear and lack of confidence

• lacking self-confidence

• people who are fearful and cautious

• lacking conviction or boldness or courage

• made afraid

• thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation

• stricken with horror

• made timid or fearful as by threats

• thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation

• made afraid

• lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright

• change into stone

• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

• coerce by violence or with threats

• fill with terror; frighten greatly

• a pronunciation of afraid

• quick to understand

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm

• feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

• bad; unfortunate

• without merit; of little or no value or use

• causing dejection

• timid by nature or revealing timidity